The Right Climate Stuff

The Right Climate Stuff Team Releases New Report,Finds 'No Convincing Evidence Indicating Our Planet Is in a Climate Crisis'

(April 13, 2013) -- A team of former and retired NASA scientists, engineers, and astronauts has released a detailed report claiming their former employer “is over-reacting to concerns about anthropogenic global warming” and “the threat of net harmful total global warming, if any, is not immediate and thus does not require swift corrective action.”

The group calls itself “The Right Climate Stuff.” Most are retired NASA Johnson Space Center employees who worked together on manned space projects since the early days of the Apollo Program. “Although climate science is not one of our technical specialties,” they write, “the required expertise in physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, biology, data analysis and interpretation, and complex systems modeling, is similar to our collective academic training and experience gained through our typical 40 - 50 years of experience working in our nation's space program.”

“At the crux of these differences in scientific opinion,” the NASA team writes, “is the extremely difficult task of separating atmospheric CO2 effects from poorly understood natural climate cycle effects, some with cycle periods that appear to last for hundreds or thousands of years.”

“This new report from The Climate Right Stuff merits close attention by everyone following the debate,” said Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, which has published extensively on the issue of global warming. “NASA’s own top experts, people who have played key roles in putting men on the moon, have studied the issue closely and concluded that there is no global warming crisis.”

“I’m not sure what else has to happen before people realize the threat of man-made global warming has been exaggerated,” Bast continued. “Some of these former astronauts are real heroes and distinguished scientists. What will it take to shake the almost-religious belief some people have in global warming?”

“Global warming alarmists may control the federal bureaucracy, but The Right Climate Stuff team of NASA scientists reveals of groundswell of skepticism inside NASA itself,” said James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environmental policy at The Heartland Institute. “These American heroes present a strong scientific case for climate realism. Humans are not causing a global warming crisis, and government programs to address the phantom global warming crisis are wasting precious resources that could be devoted to much more important uses.”